Job 16

Verses of Job 16 of the NIV from the book of the bible

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1 - Then Job replied:
2 - "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!
3 - Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4 - I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
5 - But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6 - "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7 - Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
8 - You have bound me-and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9 - God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 - Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
11 - God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12 - All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13 - his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
14 - Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 - "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
16 - My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 - yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 - "O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
19 - Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20 - My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 - on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
22 - "Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.

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Job 16 NIV - English Bible Online

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